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SourceAccusations of racism are a kind of brainless addiction on the Left, like slot machines. Whenever they feel unsatisfied with anything, they break their minds into quarters, put them in the slots, yank the arm down, and repeat.
Nancy Pelosi’s dismissive remarks to the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd started all this. About the Squad she sounded a note of condescension, like a school matron who is aware — but doesn’t much care — that the girls are talking smack about her while vaping behind the bleachers after soccer practice. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.” Ouch! Pelosi, at 79, is not even young enough to know what middle-aged people have learned: Handle Millennials in the workplace the way you’d handle spent radioactive fuel rods, lest they spatter you with toxic hurt feelings.
As Dowd pointed out the other day, there’s a desperate struggle up on top of Wokeback Mountain, and people are getting a little punchy in the thin air. Matthew Continetti astutely notes that what is going on with the House Democrats is a mirror image of what happened with the Tea Party–inspired House Freedom Caucus as they grew impatient with John Boehner. Each group took its frustrations out on the head of its own party instead of acknowledging that you don’t get to run the country with one house of one branch of the federal government. But there is a big difference this time.
This time it’s racial. There is no coming back from an accusation of racism. Short of abject apologies from AOC and Co., which seem as unlikely to be issued as presidential apologies, Pelosi and other legacy Dems are never going to forget that they’ve been tagged with the wickedest concept in the Left’s attack manual. Every Democrat mentioned above is either a minority or a woman or both. To the average reasonable voter, any charge that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are insufficiently black, or the implication that Pelosi opposes AOC because of skin tone rather than tactics, is deeply stupid. These fatuous accusations of racism have the effect of further diluting the power of a word that might well be the most overused one in America, or perhaps second only to “literally.”